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who, from the constant habit of examining 

 all the peculiar effects and combinations, 

 as well as the general appearance of na- 

 ture, are struck with numberless circum- 

 stances, even where they are incapable of 

 being represented, to which an unprac- 

 tised eye pays little or no attention. The 

 English word naturally draws the reader's 

 mind towards pictures; and from that par- 

 tial and confined view of the subject, what 

 is in truth only an illustration of pictu- 

 resqueness, becomes the foundation of it. 

 The words sublime and beautiful have not 

 the same etymological reference to any 

 one visible art, and therefore are applied to 

 objects of the other senses: sublime indeed, 

 in the language from which it is taken, and 

 in its plain sense, means high, and there- 

 fore, perhaps, in strictness, should relate 

 to objects of sight only; yet we no more 

 scruple to call one of Handel's chorusses 

 sublime, than Corelli's famous pastorale 

 beautiful. But should any person simply, 

 and without any qualifying expressions. 



